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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






2. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






3. Name six sources of grains






4. What is normal BMI?






5. Fats can lead to some medical problems






6. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






7. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






8. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






9. What are healthy sources of fats?






10. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






11. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






12. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






13. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






14. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






15. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






16. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






17. What is RDA of protein?






18. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






19. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






20. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






21. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






22. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






23. What does DASH stand for?






24. Where can you get more vitamin D?






25. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






26. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






27. What is normal albumin levels?






28. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






29. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






30. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






31. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






32. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






33. What is the function of vitamin E?






34. What type of people need extra protein?






35. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






36. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






37. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






38. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






39. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






40. When does BMR increase?






41. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






42. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






43. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






44. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






45. What is the function of vitamin C?






46. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






47. How many calories/gram is protein?






48. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






49. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






50. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?